One Of The Most Dangerous Weapons In History

More people destroyed, more family generations than any other weapon. And it's mind blowing that he still gets away with it. And he's been using it for thousands of years. So what is that? Well, let's look at Second Corinthians, chapter 11, Second Corinthians, chapter 11, verse number three. Here's what it says. But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety. Subtlety. Subtlety is slight. It's not. It's covert. It's not overt. Right. Subtlety does not make broad paint with broad strokes. It paints with very fine strokes.

I fear lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that's in Christ. So here's what. Here's what the apostle Paul is saying as he wrote to the church in Corinth. He's saying, I'm afraid that the same way Satan deceived Eve is the same way Satan's going to deceive you. The same way Satan destroyed Eve is the same way Satan's going to destroy you. Even though this is some 4000 years later he's writing this, Satan has the same old rusty, crusty toolbox he had back then. Because when you got tools that work, you don't need new ones. So if we're going to understand.

Satan's secret weapon and how Satan.

Subtly deceived or beguiled Eve, we have to go back to Genesis chapter three and look at Genesis chapter three. And even before we look at Genesis chapter three, let's look at Genesis chapter two, and let's look at verses 16 and 17. Here's what it says. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, of every tree of the garden, thou mayest freely eat. But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it. For the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. So God said, and you've heard me teach on this before, that the very first temptation in the history of the world was a temptation to focus on lack. And that temptation to focus on lack was because God gave Adam and Eve everything for free. In fact, if you go back and read verse 11 and 12 in Genesis chapter 2, it says, and there was gold in that land, and the gold of that land is good. So there are two people in the Garden of Eden. Food is free. There are no stores. There's nothing to buy. There's nothing to sell. There's no need for money. But God put gold there. And Told us it was there because God wants us to understand that opulence and abundance are natural in the environment for the children of a king. However, God said to Adam and Eve of every tree of the garden, which tree? Every tree you may freely eat. Eat how freely? So we got every and we've got freely every and freely are abundance of every tree freely eat except one, the tree of knowledge of good and evil. By the way, the tree of life was also in the Garden of Eden. They were able to eat off the tree of life, but they weren't able. They were not allowed to eat off the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Why? Because the knowledge of good and evil is not knowing what's good and knowing what's evil. It's just. It's not. Not talking about discerning what's good and discerning what's evil. It's talking about deciding what's good and deciding what's evil. And that's God's job. And that's why the child not tree of knowledge of good and evil was God's tree. And he said, don't eat off of it. Now, Satan comes in Genesis chapter three in the form of a serpent. In the form of a serpent. In Genesis chapter three, verse one, it says now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, yea, hath God said, ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden. So Satan did something really subtle. What did he do? He used one of his weapons. This is not his main secret weapon. This is another one of those devastating weapons, though. What did he do? He changed what God said.

So Satan is now and always has been.

In a war against words and in a war against the word. Because in the beginning was the Word and the Word was God. And the Word was with God. And the same was in the beginning with God. And all things were made by him, without him was not anything made that was made. That's why there's such a massive attack on. On language. What do you mean massive attack on language? Well, if you think about it, the Bible uses a term called drunkenness, right? We don't call it drunkenness anymore. What do we call it? We don't call it drunkenness, which is a sin. What do we call it? Alcoholism, which is a disease. So now it's not your fault because there's an attack on words, right? The Bible uses a term called adultery. We don't call it adultery anymore. What do we call it? An affair sounds like a party, right? Maybe I should bring a gift and some flowers. Right? The Bible calls. Uses the word harlot or whore. We don't use those words. What do we call it? A lady of the night.

As opposed to a lady of the day.

Right.

The Bible uses a word called fornication. We don't call it fornication. What do we call it? Common law. Marriage. Right. What do we call it? We call it consenting adults. God calls it fornication.

Right. People don't like that. Right. Because.

It'S really fascinating how if you go back 50 years, it didn't matter what church you were going to like. Preachers would speak out against all of these things as sin. But now just God blesses everybody for everything they do and in spite of everything they do. That ain't what the word says. The word says be sure your sin will find you out. Right. The Bible calls it sodomy, which is an abomination. What do we call it? Being gay? Gay, like. Like joy. Like happy. Really? The implication is that people who are not sodomites, homosexuals.

Using their body according to what the Bible says. For that which is against nature.

We imply that only people who commit the sin of homosexual homosexuality are happy. That's the implication. That's the mastery of. Of the marketing of Satan. That's not even his most powerful weapon. He changed what God said. He said, yea, if God said ye shall not eat of every. By the way, I don't hate people who commit adultery, people who are harlots, people who are committing fornication, people who are sodomites. I don't hate any of them. People who are drunks. I don't hate any of them. But I'm going to call it what God calls it. Why? Because. Because I want to walk with God. Can two walk together except they be agreed? I'm not going to use the world's language. I'm not going to use Satan's language. I'm not going to call it what he called it. I'm going to call it what God called it. And if we do that, like if we get back to that, the world was a better place. It wasn't perfect, but it was way better than it is now, right now. Anyway, I don't even have time to go into that because I want to get to Satan's secret weapon. Because Satan's secret weapon is also subtle. He changed what God said. God said, of every tree freely eat. Servant said unto the woman, yea. Hath God said, you shall not eat of every tree of the garden. So here's what Satan, another little subtle thing Satan did. He got Eve to question the answers that God had already given her.

Did you see that? He said, yea, hath God said. Did God say you can't eat off of every tree of the garden? What did he do? Does that change the meaning? Oh, when you add the word not and take out the word freely it drastically changes the meaning. Then what happened? He said.

The woman didn't want to be too radical and she didn't want to offend anybody. So the woman said to the servant, we may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden. That is not what God said. God didn't say you may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden. He said of every tree of the garden freely eat, but of the tree don't eat. She changed it just like we do today. We don't want to offend anybody. And I don't want to offend anybody. I don't want to offend anybody. I love people, right? I love people. I want people to love me. But I am more concerned about what God thinks about me than I am what some human thinks about me. And I like. And one of the reasons the world is so like hog wild and hell bent on destruction is because people who believe something hold their peace.

And so what happens is a minority of people with really big mouths are willing to get on camera and make a lot of noise. And so we think everybody believes with a handful of people believe because the people who believe something different are unwilling to open their mouths. You know I'm telling the truth. I don't want people to think. I don't want people to think. I don't want people to think I'm a bigot. I don't want people to think I'm narrow minded. I don't want people to think I'm a right wing. Right wing? Like what does that even mean, right wing? You like one wing? I don't even know what that means. Right wing, left wing.

What? I don't even have any wings.

I got no wings. I'm wingless.

But the reality is, do you understand? Satan is fighting for the opportunity for the right. When you're a little 12 year old girl goes into the locker room fighting for the right for boys to go in there with her.

And we act like that's okay.

And we're scared to say something because somebody might be offended.

Real talk.

I'm gonna tell you right now, can I be transparent? I Wasn't saved my whole life. And if they would have told me when I was 12, all I had to do was say, I think I'm a girl to go into the girl locker room. I'd have been all up in there.

Oh, and you know why you are laughing? Because you know I'm right.

It's insanity. Anyway, I don't have any opinions. If I did, I'd never say them in public.

By the way, I'm not talking about being mean to people.

But I'm going to say this to you. Here's what's fascinating to me. While I'm on. While I'm on tangents, I might as well just jump off all the way on one. I find it fast. By the way, I love Israel.

Like I contribute every month and have for years to a charity in Israel. Like I and been doing that for years. So, like, I love Israel. I love Jewish people, right? Here's what I find fascinating. I find it fascinating.

That Kyrie Irving can post a link to a video on Amazon. He gets all his contracts canceled, gets suspended for five days, because in the video, the video implies that black people in America are the original Hebrews. I'm not even going to go into a conversation about that today. I will one day though, trust me. Okay, but I'm not going to go into a conversation about that today. But people said because he posted that video link that that means he's anti Semitic. So.

Saying that black Hebrews are black is against Jewish people. So how's like, why is that? First of all, the scripture says that when the children of Israel came out of Egypt, they came out a mixed multitude. Go read the Bible.

Right, let's start there. Let's go read the Bible. I don't believe that all Jews are black. All Hebrews are black, and I don't believe all Hebrews are white. I don't.

Follow the table of nations. Go read Genesis, chapter 11. You'll be blown away where everybody migrated to. It's mind blowing. Another conversation for a different day. Here's what's fascinating to me about that. We think that's anti Semitic. But black people in the United States of America who were tortured, raped.

Mutilated and murdered for hundreds of years legally.

And the infrastructure, a large part of the infrastructure of the United States was built on the backs of free labor of our ancestors. Okay, I'm going somewhere with this.

And somehow.

The homosexual movement can come and take the word discrimination and apply it to their philosophy.

And capitalize on the plight of my father and My grandfather and my grandfather's grandfather.

Wait a minute, wait a minute. That's fascinating to me and that's not denigrating to black people.

I'm just. I'm making a comparison. I'm asking a question and I'm asking a question. That's fascinating to me because there was a time in the United States of America where you could kill a black person and not be prosecuted. Don't know that that was true about a homosexual. There was a time in America was not legal for a black person to go to school or go to college. That was not true. How can the world. How in the world have black people sat by silently and let them hijack a word that describes the plight of our ancestors to get us to where we are today, to be able to be able to even participate in the free enterprise system?

I'm asking questions. I would really like some answers to that.

Why is it. Why is it that.

They'Re using the same tactics.

To perpetuate.

Homosexuality and other sexual perversions that they use to perpetuate slavery in the United States of America? Which is what? Censorship. Making it illegal to speak out against it. I want you to think about that. It was illegal to speak out against slavery. It didn't matter if you were black, white or orange, purple or pink. You couldn't speak out against slavery during this time of slavery. You couldn't speak out against Jim Crow laws in the south after slavery without suffering the consequences. Why? Because evil always needs good voices to be silent in order for it to exist.

Light can exist in the presence of darkness and be okay. Darkness cannot exist in the presence of light and be okay. And if you really believe something, and this is. I don't care what it is, what it is. If you believe the Bible, if you believe Jesus is the son of God, if you believe, if you believe that a man and a woman should be married in order for them to have intercourse with each other. If you believe that, and you can't believe it by yourself, you don't really believe it.

If you got to recruit other people to your side, everybody has to agree with you. You know, your belief is weak. Now, I think, for instance, I'll give you for instance, and I know I'm ranting.

But somebody needs to, somewhere needs to think about something.

Instead of just letting anybody say anything they want to and let it do what it does. So.

It's really fascinating to me, it's really fascinating to me that.

That.

I was born here in this city in Tampa, Florida, May 14, 1961. In case anybody wants to get me something in 2023. Okay. No, just kidding. So May 14, 1961. I was born in Clara Fry Hospital, which was a segregated hospital. This was five or six years after the polio vaccine was discovered. But Clara Fry Hospital was started by a post Civil War nurse, and it was the hospital in Tampa where black people had to be born because we couldn't be born at Tampa General.

I'm giving you a history lesson now. I contracted polio in my left leg. My mom and dad moved to. From Florida to Pennsylvania at a time in America. Some people don't even know this. It was illegal for a black person to move from the south to the north without already having a job up north. Now how are you gonna get a job up north if you ain't never been there?

But this is real. This was real. This was in my lifetime. Okay? I contracted polio. My left leg didn't develop as fast as the rest of me. By the time I was 13 years old, my left leg was 2 inches shorter than my right leg. I had a leg stretch operation where they broke the tibia and the fibula in my left leg. And I was in this metal rack where they stretched those two bones in the bottom part of my leg for a month, for 30 days. Then I was in a cast for six months while the bone grew back together. So racism has affected my life negatively every day of my life for my entire life, since I was a baby.

So there's nobody who's listening to me, who's going to be able to tell me I don't understand racism.

I've seen black and white fountains. I know what it's like to travel through North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia and have to go to the bathroom on the side of the road because you're not allowed to go in the gas stations where you bought gas. I remember that. I know you do.

Why am I saying all that? Because even though racism is dumb as a box of rocks.

In a free country, a person should have a right to be a racist as long as they don't inflict harm on somebody they hate. Words are not harm, by the way.

So let's start there. Regardless of what society says, words are not. Like, somebody might hate me, but you know what? I'm going to. I'm not going to spend six seconds arguing with a racist. Why would I do that?

As dumb as a box of rocks. I'm not going to persuade them. But I want you to think about this like you don't have to silence the voices that oppose. Let idiotic voices speak loudly so it can be revealed to all that they are idiots.

Instead of mandating silence from opposing voices because you want to perpetuate evil, whatever that evil might be.

Is that too tough for Florida? But we need some followers of God and believers of the Bible to open their mouths and stand for right in the face of opposition. Cancel culture, pseudo moralistic behaviors that want to just call people. Do you realize calling someone a name to discredit their point.

Is a rhetoric tactic? It's not science. It's a rhetoric tactic. I learned this from my son, so I'm going to give him credit. It's called an ad hominem fallacy. So if I call you a racist now, somebody calls you a racist now, your opinion is no longer valid. Call you a bigot. Your. Your opinion is no longer valid. A homophobic. Now that you. Somebody just call you a name. And then because, because. Because a lot of people who own platforms and run businesses are cowards.

What they do is they capitulate to the loudest voice at the time.

Because nobody has a spine. I mean, because. Well, I shouldn't say no. Very. Like very few.

You know, I'm not a super fan of Elon Musk, but I'm a super fan of the fact that he is at least a man.

And he ain't nobody's punk. A lot of stuff he believes I think is crazy. But you know what? I love it. I love the fact that he's willing to put his money where his mouth is and stand for what he believes in instead of all these cowards who want to silence all the opposing voices because they already know they're wrong. Anyway, that had nothing to do with today's Bible study. But the spirit of God does what he does. The spirit of God is not the spirit of emotion. The spirit of God is the spirit of truth. Anyway, so when the woman said unto the serpent, we may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden. We got the verse two. Okay, but of the fruit tree that's in the midst of the garden, God has said, you shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die. God didn't say, don't touch it. He just said, don't eat off of it. But Eve made the mistake of thinking that she could use willpower to conquer her flesh. Willpower doesn't conquer flesh because willpower is flesh. And the flesh is not going to help you conquer your flesh.

Is this helping somebody beside me?

For God doth Know that. And the serpent said unto woman, you shall not surely die, for God does know the day you eat thereof, then you should. Your eyes will be open, and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And here's what it says. Next. Y' all ready? Here comes Satan's secret weapon. Ready? And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired, to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were open, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed themselves fig leaves together, and they made themselves aprons. And when they heard the voice of the Lord walking in the garden in the cool of the day, Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord amongst the trees of the garden. This is the first time that Adam, that man, ever hid from God. After he did what? After he was impacted by Satan's secret weapon. Which is what? Food and appetite.

I want you to wrap your mind around this. The very first temptation in the history of. Of the world.

Was a temptation to eat something.

Wait, what?

The first temptation in the history of the world. And here's. Here's what's fascinating. Satan is still killing people by the millions in 2022 and getting them to dig their own graves with a knife. And for.

Y' all wasn't ready for that. Wait, y' all wasn't ready? I can tell y' all didn't. I forgot to tell you to put your tay. Table up. Put your seatbelt on. The very first temptation in the history of the world was a temptation to eat something.

Okay, Maya. Well, why do you call it Satan's secret weapon? Because the very first temptation. Let's go look at it. I mean, I'm not even. I'm not even gonna tell you. I'm gonna read it because just so y' all know, Myron ain't making this up. I ain't smart enough to make up stuff this good. Okay, okay.

Matthew, chapter four, verse number one. Then was Jesus led up with the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted 40 days and 40 nights. Isn't that fascinating? What did he do? He fasted 40 days and 40 nights. He didn't eat nothing.

Okay, I just thought this was funny. When he had fasted 40 days and 40 nights, he. He was afterwards and hungered. Every time I read that, I want to say. You don't say. That's like, that's. That seems to be what should go next, but it does. Okay. And the tempter came to him and said, if thou be the son of God, command these stones be made bread. The first temptation in the history of the world was a food temptation. The first temptation that Satan tempted Christ with was a food temptation. What?

But Jesus didn't capitulate to the flesh, to appetite, to the food and the appetite. Okay, so I'll do a different Bible study on that. Because I don't have time to go into that. I'm gonna do a Bible study on Satan's special forces.

Okay. But anyway, I'm not gonna do that today. So I'm gonna stay with Satan's secret weapon, food and appetite. It's really fascinating to me. It's really fascinating to me that.

The sin.

That is welcomed in the church with open arms.

And celebration is gluttony.

What? Okay, I want you to wrap your mind around this. Some of y'. All. How many have been going to church for a while now? Come on now. Where are my people? Where are my people? Been going to church for more than a day or two or three. Come on, now. How many of you in your life have heard a sermon against gluttony ever?

Right here's why.

I don't know if y' all ready. Yeah, I think y'. All. Okay.

So.

Here'S why. Because when we came to Christ, we said, all right, Lord. Well, some of us did, Lord. Okay, Lord, you can have my cousin, you can have my drinking, you can have my smoking, you have my carousing and my sexual immorality. But, Lord, you can't touch my plate. Can I get a witness? You can be lord of everything in my life but my plate. I've heard. I've heard Christians go so far as to pray, say, dear Lord, thank you for this food. Please bless it and eliminate all the calories. Eliminate the calories?

Why you tripping?

You know I'm telling. You know I'm telling the truth. Eliminate the calories. The man cried. I don't think that's how this works. This ain't that any. Here's what it says in Ecclesiastes 10:17. I want you to wrap your mind around this. Ecclesiastes 10:17. Here's what it says. Verse 10:16. Woe unto thee, O land, when thy king is a child. And when thy princes eat in the morning. What? What happened? Woe unto you, O land, when your princes eat in the morning. But breakfast is the most important meal of the day. That's not science. That's a marketing slogan.

Okay. Anyway, that wasn't where I was going. Verse 17. Blessed art thou land. So he's given a woe and a blessing. Blessed art thou land, when thy king is the son of nobles and thy princes. Eat for strength and not for drunkenness.

Eat for drunkenness. That's a thing. That's a thing. You want to see what it looks like? Go to Golden Corral.

Golden Corral, golden trough, whatever you want to call it.

We are supposed to have command over our appetites. Our appetites are not supposed to have command over us. The Bible says this. This is a Bible study about business. Well, let me give you a business principle. You ready? Ready. A business principle for success. The drunkard and. And the glutton shall lie down together.

And drowsiness will clothe a man with rags. The drunkard and the glutton. I don't drink. Okay.

Phase one complete. Let's go to phase two. How you doing?

Am I keeping this too real? See, here's the problem. Here's the problem. We don't think about food in relationship to the word of God. In fact. Oh, I'm gonna look this up.

It's really interesting.

Exodus 15, Exodus 15:26. In Deuteronomy 7:15, Exodus 15:26, here's what God said to the children of Israel. By the way, God gave the children of Israel the law, and some of those laws were dietary laws.

He. It's really interesting, like in the dietary laws, even though they were stated clearly in Exodus. What's really fascinating is that even when God told Noah to bring the animals in the ark, a lot of people think all the animals came in two by two. No, the unclean animals came in by two. The clean animals came in by seven.

Go read it. It's in the Bible, right? Why? Because the purpose of unclean animals is to clean up the filth out of the environment. Unclean animals exist for the same purpose as flies and roaches and buzzards. They exist for the very same reason. Like to. To eat the filth that's left over in the environment. That's why they're there. So that it doesn't contaminate people and animals that are not supposed to eat unclean things. That's why it's there. They're there as God's natural waste management system. Okay, here's what it says in Exodus, chapter 15, verse 26. And said, if thou wilt diligently hark unto the voice of the Lord thy God, and will do that which is right in sight, will give ear to his commandments and keep his statutes. I will put none of these diseases on you upon thee which I have brought upon the Egyptians. For I am the Lord that healeth thee. Wait, wait. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. What did I just read? Now, see, here's what I know. I know that some. Some diseases are inflicted upon people by Satan. Go read Mark, chapter four. I know some diseases are inflicted on people by themselves, but some diseases are inflicted on people by God. What? Here's what God said. I'm going to put the disease in the animals that you're not supposed to eat.

See, a lot of people don't realize this. By the way, it's not a sin to eat pork. It's just not very smart. It's not a sin to eat shrimp or lobsters or crabs. And I'm not telling you what to eat. It's not a sin to do that. It's just not very smart. Because God put that stuff here to eliminate toxicity out of our environment so that we don't become contaminated by it. People say, but I really like shrimp, and I really like lobster, and I really like crabs, and I really like oysters, and I really, really, really like pork. Well, you like them because you eat them. People think that they eat what they like, but they really like what they eat. Appetites are developed. That's why people smoke cigarettes, why people drink Coca Cola. You're not going to give a baby Coca Cola. And they're going to love it. They're going to spit it out initially until you give them enough of it that they become addicted to it.

It's fascinating. Satan's secret weapon is now and always has been. I can't believe I've been going this long. Is now and always has been food.

Esau sold his birthright to Jacob. I know a lot of people say Jacob stole Esau's. Go read this text. He said, sell thy birthright unto me. He said, I'm at the point to die. What good is this birthright doing to me? And Esau sold Jacob his birthright. Esau sold his birthright for some food. The children of Israel went down into Egypt and. And were. And stayed there in bondage for 400 years. Why'd they go down to Egypt for food?

Naomi and Elimelech and Malan and Chilean went down into Moab for food. And three of them died there.

Daniel, Shadrach and Abednego. When they took a stand, they took a stand against eating the king's meat and drinking the king's wine. They took a stand for food.

Food is Satan's secret weapon.

There are some, there's some. There's a lot of scientific evidence that shows that a lot of health problems that a lot of people have could be solved with diet and exercise. Do you realize, you know why we have to work out? Cuz we don't work. I don't mean that in a bad way. Like obviously we work. I work, right? But my work is not work. My work is sitting down. And they say sitting is the new smoking, right? I'm sitting in front of my computer. That's how I work. So you know, I got to do I have to create some artificial manual labor and make my body move because the work I do, I'm not pulling sorghum on a sorghum farm anymore. I'm not putting on a rubber roof and carrying rocks up a ladder anymore. I'm not hammer and nail and sawing boards all day like I used to. So I've got to work out because my work don't have a whole lot of work in it. How many all track it. But I'm going to be. I'm going to tell you something. You will be so much stronger for so much longer if you become hyper vigilant and intentional about what you eat and about what you drink. And people say but I don't like water. That's fascinating. I wonder how long it took Satan to get you to the place where you don't like water.

Because Jesus said I am the living water. He didn't say I'm the living Coca Cola. It's fascinating to me.

Do you realize that anything that comes in contact with the human being, it becomes contaminated. I breathe in something as life giving as oxygen.

When I breathe it out, it's no longer life giving, it's life taking. If I it turns into carbon dioxide. If I sleep with a plastic bag over my head, I'm going to die. Why am I going to die? What am I going to do? I'm not going to suffocate, I'm going to asphyxiate, which means I'm going to die because I'm breathing in toxic gas. Where did the toxic gas come from? It came from inside of me.

Why am I telling you that? Because we don't sleep with a plastic bag over our head because it doesn't make sense. But what we do do, that doesn't make any sense. We take the same carbon dioxide, we pump it into water, add sugar to it. Call it soda and Dr. It by the gallon and wonder why so many people are sick.

Your body is 70% water, your brain is 90% water, and you don't like water. Good luck with that. Let me know how it turns out for you.

We should be drinking half our body weight in ounces of water a day. If I weigh 200 pounds, which I don't, but if I did, I need to be drinking 100 ounces of water a day.

Why, this is a temple. This is like. Brethren, I would above all things that thou wouldst prosper and be in health even as thy soul prosper. My soul. My body can't prosper if it don't drink enough water. My body cannot prosper unless I drink, eat more food, hear me now, from the hand of God than I do from the hand of man. Remember what it said back in Genesis? And she when the woman saw that tree was good for food, pleasant to the eyes, desires to make one wife, she took of the fruit thereof and did eat, gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat. This is the first time the Bible records man receiving food from the hand of man. Eve gave Adam the fruit that she plucked. Guess what? If most of the food that you eat comes from a factory from the hand of man, and the least amount of food that you eat comes from the hand of God, it grows out of the ground. You are setting yourself up for the. For disaster. I'm not saying. I'm not saying don't ever eat packaged food. I'm not saying that. I'm not saying don't ever eat, only drink water. I'm saying mostly drink water.

Drink more water than anything else you drink. I do mine. I drink water in my teeth. That ain't the same thing. I do mine. I drink water. That ain't the same thing. You drink a cup of coffee, it costs you more water than comes in with a drink because coffee is a diuretic, so it costs your body water. There's an expense of water. And a lot of people are not feeling well simply because they're dehydrated. A lot of people suffer from headaches because they don't drink water.

But you don't have a headache because you're suffering from a Tylenol deficiency. Anyway, what am I saying? I'm saying Satan's secret weapon is food and appetite. He's been using it for millennia. Don't think for one second he's not going to use it against you. Okay, I'm going to read two more verses to you Deuteronomy 7:15. And the Lord. And the Lord will take away from the all sickness and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt which thou knowest upon thee, but will lay them upon all them that hate thee. Why? Because they. I'm gonna tell you something. You are doing yourself if you. If you like.

I'm. It's not. It's not a sin. It's just not smart. Like, you're eating pork, and you're eating like you can't cook pork. This is a scientific fact. You cannot cook any pork at a high enough temperature to kill all the parasites in it and still have it be edible. You have to turn it into charcoal if you're going to eat it and kill all the parasites.

Here's what I'm saying. Satan.

Got you programmed to fall in love with things that are not in love with you. If you are in love with something that ain't in love with you. As I heard something, I think it was Dr. Amen said you are in an abusive relationship. And most people are in an abusive relationship with food.

So.

One, one last verse.

And I got to look it up.

First Corinthians 10:31. This is fascinating to me that it says this. First. First Thessalonians. I mean, First Corinthians 10:31. Here's what it says. Whether, therefore, ye eat or drink. Isn't it fascinating? It says, eat or drink, or whatsoever you do, do all to the glory of God. So let me ask you a question. Is God glorified by what you eat and drink.

Or are you just satisfying the flesh? And as it says in Colossians.

In fact, let me. I'm gonna look. I said one more verse. I'm gonna look up one more verse.

Because this is fascinating to me. Like.

Wow, this is in there a lot.

Philippians, chapter three.

And.

For many. Chapter three, verse 18. For many walk. Of whom I have told you often and now tell you even. Even weeping. They are enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, whose glory is their shame. Who mind earthly things. Let's don't let our God be our belly.

Let's let our mind rule over our body. Let our spirit rule over our mind. And let God's spirit rule over our spirit and not be destroyed by Satan's secret weapon, as millions of people in history have been. Let's. Let's. Let's start. Let's just make a decision that in 2023, we're going to eat more food from the hand of God and less food from the hand of man. Let's make. Let's just make a decision. Let's cut ourselves off from any other possibility and make a decision that we are going to drink more water than any other beverage in 2023. Let's just make a decision that we're gonna move more and eat less in 2023.

If we will. Understand so much of the delightfully tasting things that we love to eat around the holidays and other days and every day.

Is a weapon of mass destruction that Satan has been using to destroy people for millennia. I hope this really helps you and your family. So many sicknesses, so many diseases are on people. Because, in fact, I'm going to recommend a book to you. And by the way, this guy's. This guy. This book is. I think sometimes it's good for us to go to an extreme and then come back to moderation, right? So this guy's really radical. Just going to tell you that, right? I'm going to be. He's radical, but he ain't. But he ain't wrong. Right.

The guy's name is George Malkmus. M A L K M U S I think is how you spell it. And he wrote a book called why Christians Get Sick. It's mind blowing. I would recommend you go read that book and do as much of it as you feel like you need to. It'll help you.

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